Shaman have 3 AoE abilities, assuming im not forgetting any: earthquake, LMT, and chain lighting.
None of them emanates from the shaman or is spammable. Do you feel like one of our AoE abilities should look more like Arcane Explosion or Holy Nova?
I prefer our ranged AOE. I don’t want to have to be in the fight to do damage.
I think our kit is designed to avoid having to be in the fight bc we have ranged totems to grip, slow, & stun.
Chainlightning is spammable.
I prefer out abilities not emanate from us.
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I should have phrased that differently. I meant it had a cast time.
Sometimes.
Quite often it doesn’t.
I am extremely happy with Ele AE right now.
I’ve never been able to tell a tank to pull twice as much because my CDs are up.
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The only caster DPS now that can spam an AoE without a cooldown, casting cost, or cast time is Arcane Mage’s Arcane Explosion, and you really really do not want to spam that.
Priests really really do not want to spam Holy Nova either.
I kinda wish Earthquake was a big hit and the reverberations/aftershocks were the overloads. It’s also kinda small for an earthquake.
The aoe for ele is in a pretty good place I think. I dislike the echoes talent and would rather they changed it to earthquakes shattering frost shock targets for more aoe, but whatever.
The biggest thing for me is that the earthquake radius is small and the visual could be better. That along with all the shocks needing some sort of animation.
On my priest I hate going into melee to spam holy nova
From a pvp perspective I find it a lot more difficult to spin nodes compared to my priest and monk healers. You have like 3 abilities that can aoe spin but they all have cooldowns and 2 are totems with some delay. Even flameshock has a cooldown.
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Yeah, maybe I have node-brain